The Texas Supreme Court said Friday it would hear a case on whether an electric cooperative that operates heat recovery steam generators in power plants can qualify for a property tax exemption for pollution control, after an appeals court affirmed a state agency’s denial of the credit.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Appeals Board on Thursday rejected an environmental group’s challenge to agency permits for gas compression facilities on a tribal reservation in Utah, saying the agency was not required to conduct an air quality review before issuing the permits.

Environmental groups and Native American tribes fought back against the federal government’s bid to dodge their lawsuits challenging President Donald Trump’s decision to shrink the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments.

The House of Representatives passed a bill Friday that would remove Endangered Species Act protections for the gray wolf in Wyoming and the Western Great Lakes region and require a federal rule to remove protections for the species nationwide.

Few federal energy and environmental policies are as fiercely fought over in court as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Renewable Fuel Standard program, which requires an increasing amount of renewable fuels to be blended into the U.S. transportation fuel supply. Here's a look at where major RFS-related litigation stands and an update on whether a congressional solution to the legal standoff is in the cards.

A California judge on Thursday granted a couple's request to expedite the trial schedule for their lawsuit alleging Monsanto's Roundup and Ranger Pro herbicides gave them cancer, saying their health could impact their ability to pursue their claims and setting the trial for March 18.

Global law firm Goodwin Procter LLP said it has hired a former Gunderson Dettmer capital markets attorney with extensive experience in the life sciences, telecommunications and technology industries to strengthen Goodwin’s technology companies, life sciences and capital markets practices.

An Illinois federal judge has rejected an environmental group’s attempt to use the Clean Water Act to go after a coal-fired power plant owner that the group claims has let pollutants in its coal ash contaminate a nearby river.

A coalition of fishermen’s groups Wednesday sued Chevron Corp., Exxon Mobil Corp. and other energy companies, blaming them for contributing to ocean damage caused by climate change, which they say has forced the closure of lucrative crab fisheries off the coasts of California and Oregon.

Smithfield Foods Inc.'s subsidiary Murphy-Brown LLC asked a North Carolina federal court Wednesday for a new trial after a $94 million judgment was handed down in a case over feces and urine at its hog farms, arguing the jury trial included several significant errors that called its result into question.

Bankrupt solar cell maker Suniva Inc. said a deal was reached late Wednesday with prepetition lenders it has been engaged in disputes with over production equipment at the debtor's Georgia facility that should clear the way for more post-petition financing and the company's Chapter 11 plan to move forward in Delaware.

Danish renewable energy firm Athena Investments A/S said Wednesday that an international tribunal has awarded it €11 million ($12.47 million) in a dispute with Spain over the revocation of certain renewable energy subsidies, marking another loss for the country in a slew of similar cases.

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission nominee Bernard McNamee on Thursday resisted U.S. senators' calls to recuse himself from future electricity grid resiliency issues faced by the regulator, even though he helped craft a Trump administration plan to prop up coal and nuclear power plants that FERC rejected.

The United Kingdom should not have been awarded state aid from the European Union to subsidize backup power to support its grid during the winter, an EU court ruled Thursday, finding the union's antitrust arm failed to investigate whether green energy companies were being shut out.

An order barring the developer of a 770-acre planned community north of San Antonio from adding more “impervious cover” to the property was upheld Thursday by a Texas appellate court, which agreed that landowners downstream had shown increased stormwater runoff would harm them.

Johnson & Johnson should pay tens of millions of dollars in recompense for the life of a South Carolina lawyer who succumbed to mesothelioma at 30 after using talcum powder from birth, her husband's lawyers told a jury Wednesday at the close of a retrial in the case.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's latest change to a Clean Air Act permitting program will provide clarity to facilities looking to expand their operations and make it easier to avoid more stringent pollution controls, continuing the Trump administration's efforts to make industry-friendly changes to the program.

A Navajo Nation landowners group has urged the Tenth Circuit to rule against environmental groups and another Navajo tribal group seeking to block the Bureau of Land Management from allowing further oil and gas drilling in New Mexico’s Mancos Shale, saying it’s essential to the local economy.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday that it will ease hazardous waste regulations for auto dealerships, repair facilities and scrap yards disposing of potentially deadly Takata air bag inflators at the center of a sweeping 2015 national recall.

In its recent ruling in United States v. Nature’s Way Marine, the Fifth Circuit may have expanded the class of marine parties potentially liable under the Oil Pollution Act, says Andrew Stakelum of King & Spalding LLP.

The U.S. Department of Transportation recently issued a rule that could create a faster, less duplicative environmental review process for transportation infrastructure projects. Samina Bharmal and Peter Whitfield of Sidley Austin LLP provide insight into its key features.

In this monthly series, Amanda Brady of Major Lindsey & Africa interviews management from top law firms about the increasingly competitive business environment. Here we feature Katie DeBord, chief innovation officer at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP.

Based on last week's U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments in Virginia Uranium v. Warren, it appears the court will reject the Fourth Circuit’s reasoning that Virginia’s purpose is irrelevant to the question of whether the state's ban on mining is preempted by the Atomic Energy Act, says Michael Murphy of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP.

With few cases going to trial, many attorneys keep their oral-presentation skills sharp by teaching continuing legal education programs. To avoid giving a CLE that falls flat and damages your reputation, you must fashion a thoughtful message, control its presentation, and nail the beginning and ending, says Daniel Karon of Karon LLC.

Since the oldest members of Generation Z aren’t even finished with law school yet, law firm management is in a unique position to prepare for their entrance into the legal workforce, says Eliza Stoker of Major Lindsey & Africa.

The Massachusetts federal district court's decision in Plainstow Project v. Ace Property & Casualty Insurance illustrates a recent pro-policyholder outcome as to the interplay of a policy's pollution exclusion and the viability of its “sudden and accidental” exception, say Alexander Bandza and Brian Scarbrough of Jenner & Block LLP.

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